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Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Way to Electricity, also champion of the National Book Critics Circle Award, persists - one of the richest, most extensive, and most revealing examinations ever undertaken associated with an American Leader. In Means of Ascent, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer/historian, chronicler also of Robert Moses in The Electricity Broker, holds Johnson through his service in World Warfare II and the building blocks of his long-concealed lot of money and the reality behind the misconceptions he created about it. But the explosive heart of the publication is Caro's revelation of the real story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, for 40 years shrouded in rumor, which Johnson were required to gain or face certain politics death, and which he does gain -- by "the 87 votes that transformed background." Caro makes us witness to a momentous turning point in American politics: the tragic last stand of the old politics versus the new - the politics of issue versus the politics of image, mass manipulation, money and digital dazzle.
